- Jun 14, 2007
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What's up guys!
I'm planning on building a dedicated computer for my edrums. Right now I'm running them on my regular computer using a USB soundcard, the latency is noticable, I'm getting around 5ms in, and 5ms output. I could just get a PCI-card to get lower latency but I would like something that's next to the drumkit so I don't have to run cables all over my living room. I thought of a laptop but firewire cards have more latency than PCI.
The most important thing is latency, I want to get as low as possible. It has to be able to run DFH Superior 2.2 at that low latency. Roland drum modules have 2.5 ms of latency. I would like to do it as cheap as possible.
Here is what I was thinking:
Soundcard: M-audio audiophile 192
Processor: Intel i7 quadcore, 3.0 GHz
Mobo: Asus P6T SE (cheapest mobo with X58 chipset)
RAM: 6gigs of DDR3
Harddrive: cheapest 500gig, 7200rpm, 32megs cache I can find.
The rest I will get free from a friend who has stuff lying around. Is there anything else I need to think about? What version of windows should I install? XP, Vista, Win7?
Is this hardware enough for 1.5ms of latency? Is it overkill for what I'm going to use it for?
I'm planning on building a dedicated computer for my edrums. Right now I'm running them on my regular computer using a USB soundcard, the latency is noticable, I'm getting around 5ms in, and 5ms output. I could just get a PCI-card to get lower latency but I would like something that's next to the drumkit so I don't have to run cables all over my living room. I thought of a laptop but firewire cards have more latency than PCI.
The most important thing is latency, I want to get as low as possible. It has to be able to run DFH Superior 2.2 at that low latency. Roland drum modules have 2.5 ms of latency. I would like to do it as cheap as possible.
Here is what I was thinking:
Soundcard: M-audio audiophile 192
Processor: Intel i7 quadcore, 3.0 GHz
Mobo: Asus P6T SE (cheapest mobo with X58 chipset)
RAM: 6gigs of DDR3
Harddrive: cheapest 500gig, 7200rpm, 32megs cache I can find.
The rest I will get free from a friend who has stuff lying around. Is there anything else I need to think about? What version of windows should I install? XP, Vista, Win7?
Is this hardware enough for 1.5ms of latency? Is it overkill for what I'm going to use it for?